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How gorgeous are these Valentines day cards from the lovely Our Paper Shop. I think that a card like this makes the perfect present not only for your partner (maybe to go with something cute) but also for single friends just to make them feel loved on the day too. What I love almost more then the paper is how the girls do a full scale photos shoot with the cards. The way they photograph the cards is amazing. 

Our Paper Shop is the collaboration of bloggers Emmadime and Moxee and produces some amazing stationery, stamps and cards. I highly recommend you check out both the girls blogs and head over to our paper shop and prepare to be amazed (particularly if you're a paper/stationery junkie like me). 

The Our Paper Shop Blog is also a great read and the girls give you a  free (yes free) computer wallpaper for download each month. I currently have their February love themed wallpaper on my laptop now. I love it. 

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Go on check it out now!

Happy love, xx

Disco Pony: Never saving your special things

 I love the idea of never saving your special things... Life is too short for this. I dont think special should be hidden away... It needs to live and get some holes in it! Like us!

.... Zoey (Disco Pony)

When I first saw the giveaway on Natalie's blog (Natalie Off Duty) I was instantly in love. In my opinion there is nothing that can make you feel more pretty and girly than a whole lot of sparkle expertly executed in the form of a dress. The second I saw the dress I flew straight over to Zoey's blog and then her twitter, not because you had to for a chance at the giveaway but because I genuinely wanted to tell this girl how much I loved this dress. So with a quick @ mention away fluttered my bird carrying my message. I do believe "I just want to live in it" is was included there. And how could you not. Although it is a spectacular dress and there is that temptation to keep it for special occasions, after reading Zoey's about me (which you should read cos its beautiful)that temptation was quickly squashed. And so brings me to the point of this post. The many stylings of the Disco Pony Natalie dress. And yes, yes I have named each style. 

The Taylor swift

Boots, VintageWesternWear.com

Something about glitter just screamed Taylor Swift concert to me. So here it is. This look is great because it also makes the dress suitable for a casual occasion. 

The NYE

Shoes KG Enautre - bag, Lulu Guinness (both on ASOS)

Glitter and New years are almost synonymous sometimes like new years and tears. But that's a story for another time. 

The Rock Chick

Jacket, Sassy Rider - Shoes, converse - Ring, ASOS - Nail polish, OPI - Sunglasses, Ray Ban

A little bit of black never hurt anyone. Perfect for a concert or even casual date night. 

The disco (Pony) Ball

Shoes, Converse - Bag, Antik Batik - Nail polish, OPI

For the more adventurous of you out there willing to go the whole way with the sequins. How cute are the converse by the way!

The dreaming 

Glasses, Chanel - Ring, YSL - Shoes, Louboutin - Bag, Louis Vuitton

'Cause I'd have all the money in the world if i was a wealthy girl'

The Casual 

Jacket, Topshop - Boots, ASOS - Bag, Bracelet, Ring, H&M

Because why wouldn't you want to wear this dress all the time.


Okay so maybe I got a little bit carried away with Natalie's question 'how would you style the dress?' but it's just so pretty. All photos of the dress belong to Disco Pony and more can be found on Zoey's facebook page 

May the sequins be with you! 

Hollee xx

Inspiration: Jen Ramos of MadeByGirl

These days bloggers are inspiring me so much. In all areas, fashion, DIY and home design. One of my all time favorite bloggers Jen of Made by Girl, who is a constant source of inspiration, recently posted about her newly installed DIY floating shelves. I think these shelves are an awesome idea and I have the perfect place for them. We have a old side board in our dining / lounge room that I'm thinking of replacing. Don't get me wrong I'm all for antiques but this piece is a bit old and rustic for the theme of the room.    

Jens Floating Shelves 

I've searched all over the internet and did stumble across some other ideas but could not find anything that appealed to me as much as Jens design. The fact that shes used ikea products is an added bonus. Anything ikea is a win for me. 

Some other ideas:

I must admit though for the first couple of weeks after finding MadeByGirl I thought it was Made by IT Girl for some reason. Glad I got that one sorted out. Jen's Blog is an amazing source of interior design inspiration among other thing.  Just looking at the pictures she share of her house I can't help but that that that is the way I want to decorate when I get my own home. I have to say though one thing that makes me incredibly envious of this girl, apart from her awesome blog, her amazing creativity and her cool house has to be her master closet. Do yourself a favor and go and have a look it is truly amazing!  

Jen's House, see more on Made by Girl

Jen is also an amazing artist (Yeah I know how much talent can one girl have right)and you can see some of her artwork above in her own home. Check out Cocoa and Hearts and madebygirl.com to see and purchase (cos you will want to once you've seen it, trust me)her amazing stuff. 

Made By Girl and Cocoa and Hearts artworks. 

Jen recently tweeted about another person who was selling prints which were basically exact copies of Jen's work. I'm not going to link you to the etsy shop or even mention the shops name because I don't want to justify what the person is doing or give them more publicity. I can understand why you would want to copy Jen's work because it is amazing, but obviously what this person is doing is wrong and to prove it you should go and buy the art from Jen and not copycats. 

http://madebygirl.blogspot.com

 So thanks Jen for doing what you do. And Keep on doing it!!

P.S. Jen just started following me on twitter, yes maybe I had a little bit of a fan girl moment

Inspiration: Jordan of Oh Happy Day!

One of the main influences on me actually deciding to start this blog after thinking about it for a little while was me discovering Oh Happy Day! Jordan the lady that runs this site in my opinion is amazing. After seeing one of her pinata DIYs on pin-interest I found myself sitting at my laptop going over every single post this lady has ever made!! 

I found the website in the week before my best friends Ilsa's 21st birthday party. In the next week after finding the website I completed 3 of Jordan's DIYs for Ilsa's party. 

The pinata was probably the most time consuming and I ambitiously decided to make a large 21 and have an intricate colour scheme going on. It also saddened me a bit that after all my hard work it was just going to be "smashed the shit out of" But boy did we have fun doing that!! 

Me with the pinata 

We had already wanted to do a photo booth at the party just for fun cos we have always loved taking photos but when I found Jordan's photbooth props it just cemented the idea!! The booth was a hit at the party that's for sure, and I also think it will be a great memory for Ils. 

I even came up with the idea to have Ilsa over earlier in the week and take photo booth photos on our own and then I turned the photos into a present for her (along with a Kings of Leon shirt). We had to put Ils on a piece of wood cos shes a shorty and at one stage she fell off and almost ended up with a stump of wood in places it shouldn't be. 

And the third DIY was a simple popout card tutorial. For some reason I have always struggeled with the concept of pop up cards but Ilsa and I always give each other very creative cards so finding this tutorial was amazing! I forgot to take a photo of the card before I gave it to her(pretty much because I was working on it right until the minute she came to pick me up to go to the hotel the day of her party) so I'll just show you the card she gave me this year instead.  

We like Kings of Leon incase you didn't notice

The main point of this is not only to show you Jordan's site but also to thank her for being such an amazing source of inspiration for me!! 

Hollee xx